Get rid of your DELL... and purchase a PowerMac G5 with Final Cut Pro. With that you'll get a very good editing machine and at the same time a hassle-free computer without all the usual daily Windows problems. Premiere Pro is good, but at same time needs a pretty good PC for it and good tuning of WindowsXP. At our broadcast facility, the Windows based (Avid-stations and Premiere laptops) edit stations do have more problems, than the Mac-based ones. The support guys do need usually more time to "cure" the Windows computers. And I'm just counting the incidents, not promoting Mac. A Mac mini is cheap, and will work, but you'll probably will be annoyed by it's speed. A recent PowerMac G5 is much better. In my opinion an editingstation should be reliabe and hassle-free. Especially when the editor doesn't know much about computers.

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